US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Dec. 2 for "Accident severity estimation system for a vehicle" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,637, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Accident severity estimation system for a vehicle" was invented by Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada), Ali Rafiei (Newmarket, Canada), Chin-Hsu Lin (Troy, Mich.) and Alok Warey (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accident severity estimation system for estimating the severity of an accident for a vehicle includes one or more microphones that capture a plurality of audio-based inputs indicative of verbal and non-verbal sounds emitted by one or more occupants of the vehicle. The accident severity estimation system also includes a vision syst...